The Junior Historian, Volume 26, Number 5, March 1966 Page: Front Inside
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THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
1897-THE OLDEST LEARNED SOCIETY IN TEXAS-1897
President:
J. P. BRYANVice-Presidents:
JOSEPH SCHMITZ
SEYMOUR V. CONNOR WAYNE GARD
ROBERT N. RICHARDSONDirector:
H. BAILEY CARROLL
Cor. Sec. and Treas.:
MRS. CORAL HORTON TULLISTHE JUNIOR HISTORIAN
Published by
The Texas State Historical Association
Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center
Box 8059, University Station
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712
Editor
H. BAILEY CARROLLFRANCES V. PARKER
JOANNE SKILLINGAssociate Editors:
ALWYN BARRBARBARA CUMMINGS
J. C. MARTIN"No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of the PRESENT
who is ignorant of the PAST, and no People wo are indifferent
to their PAST need hope to make their FUTURE great."
Issued six times during the school year in: September, November, December, January, March, and
May. Regular subscription $2.00; club subscription (five or more to chapter members) $1.50
each. Second-class postage paid at Austin, Texas.
DON'T PUT THE "GOLD IN THEM ATTICS!"
by RICHARD T. FLEMINGA predominant theme echoes through the
editorial area of The Junior Historian reserved
for adult writers. Juniors are told ad nauseum
to consult letters and documents preserved by
families, records of the courthouse, the local
newspapers, diaries, early books, pictures, and
on and on the list goes.
This is well and good, for as DeWitt
Reddick nearly a quarter of a century ago
editorialized in The Junior Historian, "There's
gold in them attics!" Such reiteration and
continuing emphasis is justified in assuring
the changing generations of Junior Historians
of exposure to such sound advice. But may
this be a classic case of putting the cart be-
fore the horse, if this is done to the exclusion
of other activities?
Why not make the collecting and preser-
vation of original source materials a contin-
uing contemporary activity? The searcher for
original sources and materials wonders how
much of value has been and is lost by failure
to collect and preserve memorabilia and rec-
ords contemporaneously with the time of the
recording or occurrence of affairs and events.
Necessarily, the scope of such collecting must
be determined and delimited, otherwise the
collector will be entombed in papers. Majorlocal matters of primary and continuing in-
terests afford more than enough subjects to
engage attention.
An initial endeavor presenting a huge area
for tillage, which seemingly might appear
to be ephemeral, but predictably will not bear
that stigma, is in the circumscribed task of
gathering and preserving records of the stu-
dent activities of your school, admittedly,
school newspapers and yearbooks reflect quan-
tities of this very local material, but they do
not adequately reflect other records and im-
prints such as programs, advertising, announce-
ments, sports records, snapshots, group pic-
tures, school administrative records, to name
only a few. The Juniors of tomorrow will be
grateful to you for such records of the
Juniors of today.
To accomplish this, planned and studied
procedures of accumulation and preservation
are required. As simple a procedure as mark-
ing dates and identifying titles to clippings
and to pictures and their personnel will add
uncounted value to the most insignificant item.
Nothing is more frustrating to the researcher
than such unidentified material.
The dross of today is the gold of tomorrow!
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